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Parrots announcing
Dinosaur hooks on wing crooks
Life upon life Insect chords A fork-tailed wood nymph
You say A double-toothed kite?
Pink bulbs
You say Fishtail palm
Large leaves dropping A march of holes across a leaf
Scanning for monkeys
You say I don’t like the sounds here
You say We can use that leaf as sandpaper to smooth You say Can you tell ruddy?
You say Someone said that about passenger pigeons
You say Rail in the trail You say Over here, who is this?
A cooperative spider web
You say Up in the tangle? You say There’s something flycatching
A rusty see-saw
You say What’s green with a yellow belly? You say Why do we call ours oxbow?
A summer kitchen A coquette A long-tailed tyrant
Frolicking between the chiggers
Another kind of nightjar The call dropping from major to minor A high whistle
You say I do like talking to owls You say It is the hour of commotion
You say Because it happened after dinner
Lemon-throated Chestnut-eared Pale-legged
You say I remember the name, so I know I saw it
Plain-wing White-browed
You say That was the black-throated You say What about fruit?
Slender-footed Pink-throated Hooded Masked crimson Golden-belly
You say Female, in the morning
Rusted-back Yellow-rumped Olive
You say That’s actually all about the birds
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You say One of my toes is still wet
Silver water against early
Rain, a rooster-call The sweet swept air
Thunder fall
You say Again, again, don’t go by the name
Honking the bends A new kind of monkey
The mountains greening at approach
You say Like dirt’s going to do any good and stay
A police checkpoint Marbles The grass dried gold
Filtered light Clay brick An alphabet chalked
A woman weaving Ruins down
Trees arrow-straight against the severe slope
Two poles holding hay against the hill
A pink house
You say We didn’t check in on the vultures
A city lined with hillside stars
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Cobblestones
Pale-vented
Double-faced ring
Magpie
The weighted hand
You say An armada of whales
Russet-backed Lineated
You work a more elaborate list
Undulated Palm-throated Yellow-browned
One shade meeting another